Thursday, October 4, 2007

In-Progress At Talladega: ARCA Race on SPEED

At 5PM on Friday, SPEED will present the ARCA race from Talladega. This should be one very interesting event with the incredible mix of drivers.

The ARCA "regulars" like Frank Kimmel, Norm Benning, and Billy Venturini will be joined by Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti and former Red Bull Formula-1 driver Scott Speed. Add-in Erin Crocker, Kerry Earnhardt, and several young guns like Colin Braun and Dexter Bean and it should be exciting.

SPEED has not stated who will call the action, but with Steve Byrnes, Larry McReynolds, and Jeff Hammond already in place, they may simply be supplimented by some of the regulars like Don Radebaugh and Dan Pardus. We shall see.

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35 comments:

Anonymous
said...

I thought I should also post this here: something weird happened when SPEED transitioned from NASCAR Live to arca coverage. When NASCAR Live was going off air they showed cars making pace laps around the track. those cars looked like arca cars. When the arca coverage started the cars were sitting on pit road and have not even started yet. Is the arca coverage delayed?

I agree that the early coverage was awful. It did seem to get better as the race went on though. As for the taped-delayed coverage, I think it's great, especially at Talladega. We hardly ever miss anything because they return from commercial right where they left off.

We will be transitioning to a new stand-alone website in the off-season. I don't want to ruin the surprise, but it will have all the bells and whistles that you could possibly want. Including a full service forum that will allow selected users to start their own discussion threads. Shh..don't tell anyone!

Anonymous said... VINCE....You don't know your watching a taped race!!! They come back from breaks with the same laps.

October 5, 2007 7:40 PM

I do not think they delayed race during commercial breaks also. That would mean the race ended more than 30 minutes ago in real time and i don't think it did. I think it was only delayed 10 minutes from the start because ARCA started the race early and that was the only delay.

SOOOOO...What would happen if the big boys used a 10-20 lap delay in coverage like this race? No missed restarts, accidents or racing action. It seems many people watching did not even know it was taped. On the other hand people complain on here about being 5 seconds behind on Sunday's coverage. I like the way the race was handled today with the delay.

Anonymous said... SOOOOO...What would happen if the big boys used a 10-20 lap delay in coverage like this race? No missed restarts, accidents or racing action. It seems many people watching did not even know it was taped. On the other hand people complain on here about being 5 seconds behind on Sunday's coverage. I like the way the race was handled today with the delay.

October 5, 2007 7:45 PM

I would hate that. If i did not want to see the race LIVE i would TiVo it and watch it later. Or I would watch the replay Monday on ESPN2. But I do want to watch it LIVE so i don't want the delay. If FOX can work around commercials ESPN can learn too.

I still don't believe that is exactly what SPEED did to today's ARCA race. It is debatable.

I did not have the lip sync issues today but have in the past, especially on SPEED.

ALso, somebody earlier in the week asked if the audio went up and down in volume on it's own. That has ALSO been an intermittent issue on SPEED. I wondered if it was a TIME WARNER deal...but you could be in the kitchen and the tv sound would drastically change by itself.

Once I realized it wasn't my room mate or one of the cats stepping on the remote, we figured it was a SPEED and or TW deal. Also we get the broken picture pixel thing a lot on cameras at the track when they are interviewing before the race on raceday...Don't know if that is a digital deal or SPEED.

But out of all the stations we watch, we have had more problems with SPEED.

p.s. I was busy emailing a friend during the last break at Dega..you mean they WENT to break at Dega with 8 laps and came back with 8 laps? Frankly, that does not bother me a bit if I do not miss the racing. :-)

But I think a few of us would rather see the race delayed a bit in it's entirety than cut off early or channel hop.but since the race ended just a few minutes early why could they not just give more ARCA drivers some interview time?????? Dumb call at SPEED to show half a show joined in progressed.

Confused.Course, that could make MRN hell to listen to..We do not have DVR's in this house to stop the show and start again.